Research Catalog

Title

Making sense of science : separating substance from spin / Cornelia Dean.

Author

Dean, Cornelia

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.

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Details

Description

pages cm

Summary

Cornelia Dean draws on her 30 years as a science journalist with the New York Times to expose the flawed reasoning and knowledge gaps that handicap readers when they try to make sense of science. She calls attention to conflicts of interest in research and the price society pays when science journalism declines and funding dries up.--

Subject

• Science news
• Research > Moral and ethical aspects
• Research > Political aspects
• Science in popular culture

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

We the people -- What we know, and what we don't know -- The belief engine -- Thinking about risk -- The research enterprise -- What is science? -- How science knows what it knows -- Models -- A jury of peers -- Things go wrong -- Misconduct -- Science in court -- Researchers and journalists -- The universal solvent -- A matter of money -- Selling health -- What's for supper? -- Political science -- Constituency of ignorance -- The political environment -- Taking things on faith.

Call Number

JFD 17-3775

ISBN

• 9780674059696
• 0674059697

LCCN

2016037738

OCLC

2016037738

Author

Dean, Cornelia, author.

Title

Making sense of science : separating substance from spin / Cornelia Dean.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 17-3775